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 542 THE HUSSITES. Rome, in fact, had never proposed to recognize the compromise made by the council. While the latter was busy in endeavoring to win back the Hussites, Eugenius lY. was laboring for their exter- mination by the usual methods, in such regions as he could reach. The relations between Bohemia and Hungary had long been close, and Hussitism had spread widely throughout the latter kingdom as well as in the Slavic territories to the south. As early as 1413 we hear complaints of Wicklifhte doctrines carried into Croatia by students returning from the University of Prague. As Sigis- mund was King of Hungary, the Compactata were supposed to cover the Hungarian Hussites, and were published in Hungarian as well as in Bohemian, German, and Latin. We have seen, how- ever, how false he was to his Bohemian subjects, and those of Hungary he cheerfully abandoned to Rome. Six weeks after the signature of the Compactata at Iglau, on August 22, 1436, Euge- nius commissioned the indefatigable persecutor, Era Giacomo della Marca, as Inquisitor of Hungary and Austria. He was already on the ground, for in January of that year we catch a ghmpse of him as present in the conference at Stuhlweissenberg. Era Giacomo lost no time. Before the close of the year he had traversed Hun- gary from end to end, with merciless severity. The Archbishop of Gran, the Chapter of Kalocsa, the Bishop of Waradein, were loud in his praises. Their dioceses, they said, had been infected with heretics so numerous that a rising was anticipated which would have exceeded in horror the Bohemian wars, but this holy man had exterminated them. The numbers whom he put to death are not enumerated, but they must have been considerable from the expressions employed, and from the terror inspired, for his as- sociates declared that in this expedition he had received the sub- mission of fifty-five thousand converts. As the Bishop of Wara- dein rapturously declared, had the Apostle Paul accompanied him No. 1-4.— Raynald. ann. 1446, No. 3, 4 ; ann. 1447, No. 5-7.— Harduin. VHI. 1307-9. The papal view of the permission to use the cup, as set forth by Pius II. (^neas Sylvius) in 1464, was that it was only conceded to those accustomed to it until the Council of Basle should decide the question. Had this been ob- served those who used it would in time have died out, and it was an infraction of the agreement to give it to children and new communicants, through whom the custom was perpetuated.— ^n. Sylvii Epist. Ixxi. (0pp. inedd. pp. 4G5).